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nuts" which they sell for a cent each. When one wishes to 
drink, the native chops off the husk at one end as one would 
sharpen a fence post, and with two deft strokes opens the nut. 
One thus quaffs from a cup that was never used before and 
will never be used again. 
Only a few of the fruits from a tropical garden have 
been touched upon in this article. In the markets of the large 
towns, one always finds a bewildering array of vegetable pro- 
ducts and as he walks through the crowded passages and sur- 
veys the huge piles of fruit, he feels as if he were visiting some 
successful horticultural show. Many of the fruits have sug- 
gestive and alluring names, as rose apple, sweet-cup, sweet-sop, 
granadilla, lotus-berry, papaw, mamee, guava, etc. Not all 
are as pleasing to the taste as their names would indicate, 
but one finds both interest and amusement in tasting them all. 
"PERUSIN'" THE "PENNYRILE" COUNTRY. 
BY SADIE F. PRICE 
(Concluded) 
OUR NEXT drive of twenty miles brought us to a little vil- 
lage among the knobs, a village of perhaps a dozen hous- 
es. Unfortunately the day of our journey was a rainy one; but 
the impulse to dash out into the mud and rain when some 
especially interesting plant was seen, could not be resisted. 
The beautiful yellow-fringed orchis, a plant not before found 
in this State, we gathered in this way. It had ceased raining 
when we reached the town, and as we drove up to a house on 
a hill, where we had heard we could obtain good board, we 
were the cynosure of all eyes. Before night it was known to 
all the town that "a woman that's huntin' weeds," was among 
them. 
We sallied forth the first morning, following our young 
guide single file, through the Jimson weeds and bouncing Bet 
of the streets, armed with collecting outfit, lunch basket, and 
